Strange suddenly symbols/characters appearing

Hangin' Around Joined: Dec 04, 2005 Posts: 31

I am running phpnuke 7.6.3.1. Site has been up for about 2 months now. Suddenly I am seeing symbols and special characters show up on the site. For instance:

Admin menu block has "ï¿½" character before each menu link.

Before each copyright symbol on the sit it also appears. "Â© 2005"

News items with Spanish characters now look like this "Â¿por quÃ©?" and originally looked like "ï¿½por que?".

This a database or phpnuke problem? Anyone heard of this before? Suggested fixes?

Thanks

registered · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 8:58 am

See what character set your server is using. It's probably different from the character set used by default in phpNuke - ISO-8859-1

Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:38 pm

Doubled checked and both are using the same character set. Doesn't seem to be creating any problems but its annoying. Smile

Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 7:27 pm

I doubt this is of any use but check the following
http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/posts7653-highlight-weird+characters.html

http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/postx7377-0-0.html

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 9:41 am

The strange characters appear when the database is exported via phpmyadmin. Changing the character set options has corrected the problem.

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 11:35 pm

Thank you for confirming that was the problem.